Sweet Cookie Jesus, I just paid the most for a concert ticket, by far, than I ever have in my life. I feel kinda like one of those lame boomer Rolling Stones fans who have forgotten everything about rock music, but will pay ridiculous amounts every couple of years to see Mick go through the motions again.
The other day, I was going through the near future in some good shows that I intend to get out and see. Add to that this one.
Although the show is Way-Off- it isn't until October. By then, I'll probably forget I have tix. Nah I won't.
FSM forgive me, but I popped for floor seats. I've never had really good seats for these guys, and it's probably about time. Might be the only time.
They have a press conference here. It's interesting, and Tony Banks, especially, says they want to play a number of hits, because that's what their largest numbers of fans are familiar with. You gotta forgive the guy, remember his formative years were devoted to pop music and singles in the 60's, and it's probably hard-wired into his motherboard as a measure of success.
You know, though, as long as they don't play “Illegal Alien” or “Babe”, I'll probably be OK.
What? That second one isn't Genesis? How do you know they haven't become a Styx cover band in the interim?
To Blue Girl's dismay, I'm betting they won't be playing Ripples. If we're lucky, we'll get a part of Los Endos.
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They open with Behind The Lines.
ReplyDeleteThen, all of Seconds Out.
Chester and Phil drum duet.
The first side of Abacab.
Close with The Knife.
Zelmo, I expected you to come on and dismiss the whole thing because they wouldn't be touring with Hackett.
ReplyDeleteI think BTL is a likely opener, hey?
But they mention in that interview some of the newer stuff too. Like Home By The Sea.
I would dearly love to hear them do abacab again.
Gonna get tickets? It's only in Chicago.
I'm not going to count on a second leg swinging through Milwaukee.
You wouldn't beleive what I paid for tix.
ReplyDeleteBut, you wouldn't believe the seats I got either.
I can believe how much you paid for tickets because I KNOW how much you paid for floor seats. I dropped a wad too, the most I've ever spent on a concert ticket. I swore I would never pay that much to see a band. But what the hey, it's Genesis, and I also doubt they will make it to Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteWhich show you going to?
ReplyDeleteWhat's kinda pissing me off is that I was kind of fired up to see them on the CAS tour, after missing a couple of the interim shows.
ReplyDeleteIt was shaping up to be a pretty affordable treat, easier to get tix. Then they had to go and cancel. And we have to wait ten years.
It was almost 11:30 am by the time I was able to log into TicketBastard, and by that time the availability was down to single seats in nosebleed territory.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, they had just announced another day, so I'm in for Wednesday.
What day for you?
Oh man, I was right in there. Benefits of broadband, I guess. Oddly enough, I just checked the tour schedule last night on a whim.
ReplyDeleteIt took a couple of tries to get at the floor seats, but they eventually came up.
wednesday for us, too. We can make a trip of it!
I hate to think what swag is going to be priced at.
Hell, you just dropped a few Franklins on your tix, what's a few more dinero for a t-shirt?
ReplyDeleteWe should do a design that's part Ababcab, part Sex Pistols- You know, so it says "Great Rock n Roll Swindle"
ReplyDeleteFor this price, if there aren't motorcycles, free corn dogs, dancing girls and live animal sacrifices, I'm gonna be pissed.
For this price, I want a neck massage from Tony.
ReplyDeleteMike can serve me a cold beer and a bowl of mixed nuts.
And a lap dance from Phil.
OK, I just went too far with that last one, but you get my point.
The least Daryl could do is repay me the beer I bought for him at Summerfest. Sheesh, ya think ya know a guy.
Yeah, I'm a little giddy about it too.
ReplyDeleteNot giddy enough for that thing with Phil, tho.
That's just fucked up, dood.
But combine it with the Roger Waters thing, a Mekons tour in late spring/ early summer, and the rest of the shows coming around, and I'm just.... well, I'm feeling pretty damn goofy, is all.
Yeah, and now that summer is here, I'm all pumped up for the outdoor music season!
ReplyDeleteWOO HOO ! !
There's also a new Marillion disc coming out.
ReplyDeleteRumors of a North American tour.
Yay! Yay! Yay! I *think* tickets go on sale today for Cleveland. I think. I'll pay for 'em. It'll be a little hard to do, but I'll do it. They really are my very favorite in concert. Well, they're just my favorite.
ReplyDeleteThe Skimmer called me last week when he was driving around and heard on the radio they were coming. We actually thought we may make the trip to NYC to see them, thinking they'd probably skip Cleveland, but they *are* coming here. Yay!
They're going to be playing at Giants' stadium in NYC. I've never been there, but that doesn't sound like a good place AT ALL to see them.
Anyway. I AM PSYCHED! Cannot wait. I hope it lives up to my great memories from long ago.
If they play all of Seconds Out, hey, that's more than fine by me!
:)
Can you imagine if they played ALL of Trick of the Tail -- in order? Oh man. I wouldn't be able to contain myself. They'd never do that, though.
Ok! I'm rambling here! I'm so excited.
:)
Ok. Let me just say one more thing. I really hope they don't play all the cheesey ones. One or two would be ok. But, I hope the whole show's not filled with them.
ReplyDeleteI hope they play Carpet Crawlers!
bp, you're right. They probably won't do Ripples. Have you ever seen them perform that live? I don't remember. Boy, that would be *just great* if they'd do that.
Maybe I'm just fooling myself here, but I would think that if they WOULD do some of that great old stuff, the crowd would go wild. Compared to the cheesey stuff. But, I know some people are into that, which is amazing to me. Some people might think what I like is cheesey compared to the even older stuff.
OT: We went to see Rod Stewart a couple of weeks ago. Got free tickets, great seats, from a friend the day before the concert. I had never seen him. It was a fantastic show. He's a good sport. He's showing his age a tad (hate to even say that, but it's true) -- but, he was really great. He played all his old stuff (well, not all) -- but, a lot of it -- he also did lots of covers like "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" and "Father and Son."
He was great.
Gensis better play Squonk.
:)
They play Cleveland but not Milwaukee?
ReplyDeleteouch. Solid DIS!
BG, I'd guess you may have this, but if you don't: The second Archive box set has a great live version of Ripples on the 2nd disc.
GOT MY TICKETS!
ReplyDeleteAnd now *I* know how much you payed for floor seats. For God sake! Those are the most expensive tickets I've ever seen. But, I don't go to many concerts anymore. Are they the most? Good God. That's not right.
I got club level seats. Row 5. They're good. I'm psyched!!!!!!
Don't have that box set, pb. Will have to check it out. My b-day's coming up! Maybe I should start dropping hints.
:)
I know. I'm trying not to think too much about that charge. I think the Rolling stones charged more on the last tour. U2 tix were running maybe a hundred per, I think. Did you look at the auctions? Tickets started at $250 and $300. I figured those tickets would hit the same price in no time.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it was the thing about sitting there on the Ticketbastardos site, connected through to see what kind of seats were available (and they were gooood, too. Over on Tony's side of the stage) and then they tell you that you better take 'em in two minutes or lose 'em.
Aaaaah! What should I do! Deal or No deal!
aaahhh! One Minute!!!!
You're Fired!
Aaaah! Thirty Seconds!!!!
OK, dammit I'LL TAKE 'EM!!!!! MASTERCARD!!!!!!!!
.....what...did I....just....do...?
I figure if I save all my spending cash between now and then, I'll be able to pay for them, and maybe have enough for a t-shirt.
Blue Girl, they ALWAYS play carpet crawlers.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering what that "time limit" thing was. It puts pressure on you! AHHHHHH! Hurry, hurry! is right!
ReplyDeleteBastards!
I was also wondering if it had something to do with illegal stuff or scalpers or something, but I bet it's just the psychological effect it has to put pressure on you to make you whip out that credit card.
One thing about buying them now is the sting of the cost will be gone by the fall.
Back before the 2004 election (one of our darkest, darkest days) my sister and I decided at 2pm one day to jump in the car and go to see Bruce. We set a limit on what we'd pay a scalper. $100 ea. That was the deal.
We drive down. Park. A scalper walks right up to us. $85 ea. Excellent seats. Excellent show.
That was GREAT NIGHT. I had never seen Bruce before. He's a wild man.
Let's just hope they don't pile all of the good stuff into a 10 minute "Old Medley".
ReplyDeleteThat's usually where Crawlers goes.
If they only play the cheesey stuff and then pile all the good old ones into a 10 minute "medley," I will totally lose faith in humanity. Totally! I'm close -- *this close* to doing that now, but if Genesis does *that* -- that's it! I'm done!
ReplyDelete:)
I will have to see if their playing the Boston area.
ReplyDeleteAnd BP, are you going to take your new girlfriend AG to the show? You know so you can look good and feel young too?!!
AG, I know you're wonderful and powerful and an intimidating force to be RECKONED WITH; but I think you don't realize what it would take for me to Look Good AND Feel Young.
ReplyDeleteIf they played an entire album (and it's becoming the kewl thing to do, like Pink Floyd and Roger Waters) , I would love for them to do Duke all the way through.
Incidentally, got my tickets yesterday, from UPS.
ReplyDeleteTotally anticlimactic.